In Gee Chun has withdrawn from next week’s JTBC Founders Cup in Phoenix with injuries sustained when a 15-pound travel bag that Ha Na Jang’s father dropped went crashing down an escalator and hit Chun in the lower back at Changi Airport in Singapore before the HSBC Women’s Champions last week.
The mishap also led Chun to withdraw from the Singapore event.
Jang went on to win the HSBC Women’s Champions, vaulting up into the South Korean Olympic golf team’s four-player mix, knocking Chun back to the fifth position.
Amid a growing tempest in South Korea over the bizarre circumstances of the mishap, Chun issued a statement through her management team to address “excessive speculations” and “criticism” that Chun said she does not want to go any further.